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Jan 04, 2012 |
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Jan 07, 2011 |
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Senate Bill S1402
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S1402 (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-S1402 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1402 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, and the education law, in relation to enacting the "charter schools construction fair wages act" PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To require that employees who build or care for and maintain charter schools are paid prevailing wages for their services. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Sections 1 and 2 of the bill amend section 220(2) of the labor law to extend prevailing wage requirements to public work projects by charter schools. Prevailing wage requirements would also be extended to leases, grants, bonds, covenants, debt agreements, and permits entered into for public work. section 3 of the bill amends subdivision 3(a) of section 2853 of the education law to require competitive bidding on charter school contracts and to require payment of prevailing wages for construction and building service work. Section 4 of the bill establishes the effective date.
2011-S1402 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1402 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 7, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, and the education law, in relation to enacting the "charter schools construction fair wages act" THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "charter schools construction fair wages act". S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 220 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 678 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: 2. Each contract, LEASE, GRANT, BOND, COVENANT, DEBT AGREEMENT, OR PERMIT, to which the state or a public benefit corporation or a munici- pal corporation or a commission appointed pursuant to law OR AN EDUCA- TION CORPORATION ORGANIZED TO OPERATE A CHARTER SCHOOL is a party, and any contract for public work entered into by a third party acting in place of, on behalf of and for the benefit of such public entity pursu- ant to any lease, permit or other agreement between such third party and the public entity, and which may involve the employment of laborers, workers or mechanics shall contain a stipulation that no laborer, worker or mechanic in the employ of the contractor, subcontractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day or more than five days in any one week except in cases of extraordinary emergency including fire, flood or danger to life or property. No such person shall be so employed more than eight hours in any day or more than five days in any one week except in such emergency. Extraordinary emergency within the meaning of this section shall be deemed to include situations in which sufficient laborers, workers and mechanics cannot be employed to carry on public work expeditiously as a result of such restrictions upon the number of hours and days of labor and the immediate commencement or prosecution or completion without undue delay of the public work is necessary in the judgment of the commissioner for the preservation of the contract site and for the protection of the life and limb of the persons using the
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